Ivy Panda has created a World Map Timelapse of the spread of the English language from the 5th century to date. You can watch it in its entirety below or click on the links to jump to a specific time period:
- 0:00 Intro
- 0:09 5th-15th century
- 0:26 16th century
- 0:49 17th century
- 02:15 18th century
- 04:04 19th century
- 06:56 20th century
- 10:52 2000-2018
- 11:40 2019-Present
I hope you enjoy it!
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This is a really good idea, Nicholas; unfortunately, I found the text on the little flags quite hard to read, even at full screen size; I have good eyesight for reading [I’m short-sighted] but I think it might help if the flags stayed in place just a tad longer 🙂 Only a minor niggle, though. Cheers, Jon.
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It’s true, it would! Thanks, Jon 🙂
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Reblogged this on Marina Costa and commented:
interesting to know…
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Well, this was odd. I guess they should have defined ‘official.’ It seems that in England, English is only the unofficial language, even though spoken by the majority of people. Same goes for a number of American states. And I found it interesting that the Caribbean islands began speaking English so long ago.
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I, too, wondered about that. It was a fascinating video nevertheless!
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